Story 1What makes a mind and a self persist?
Nagel — Does the bat’s point of view survive physical explanation?
The question that opens it
After every observable fact is collected, does the fact of what it is like for that creature remain?
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Nagel characterizes a conscious organism as one for which there is something it is like to be that organism.
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What Is It Like to Be a Bat?
Thomas Nagel · 1974
Locator: pp. 436–438
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The bat case asks how objective physical explanation could include the subjective character of experience; it does not deny that bats have experiences.
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Animal Consciousness
Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
Locator: §2.2 Phenomenal Consciousness; discussion of Nagel 1974
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